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This blog provides links to nonfiction and diverse media for lessons in the 5th grade reading program. Students in the program will expand their knowledge of topics and themes by exploring 'outside texts' related to narrative and nonfiction titles.
5.1 Earthquake Terror
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Day 15 - "Your Cool Facts and Tips on Flooding"
Day 23 - "Loma Prieta, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake"
5.1 Book Club
I Survived Hurricane Katrina Setting Map
5.2 Holes
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Day 7 - "The Juvenile Boot Camp Debate"
Day 28 - "Belle Starr - The Bandit Queen"
5.2 Book Club
5.3 Chains
Labels and Highlights Directions
Historical Fiction Genre Chart
Day 3 - "The 13 British Colonies" (blank)
Day 3 - "The 13 British Colonies" (labeled)
Day 4 - "Overview of the American Revolution"
Day 5 - "Slavery in the Colonies"
Day 10 - The Spread of the Slave Trade Map
Day 11 - "Loyalists vs. Patriots"
Day 37 - "Crossing the River Jordan"
5.3 Book Club
Historical Nonfiction Genre Chart
Day 16 - Statue of King George III
Day 37 - Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Speech
5.4 Kids At Work
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Day 1 - "The Domestic System vs. the Factory System"
Day 2 - "The Effects of Industrialization in the United States"
Day 24 - "Employee Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act"
Day 24 - Child Labor Laws Chart
Day 25 - "Children in the Fields"
Day 26 - "Timeline of an Attempt to Change Agriculture Child-Labor Regulations"
5.4 Book Club
Historical Fiction Genre Chart
5.5 The City of Ember
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Day 24 - The Manhattan Project
Day 39 and 40 - The Russell Einstein Manifesto (abridged)
Day 40 - Hang Son Doong, Vietnam
5.5 Book Club
